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1	Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America more books like this by Thomas L Friedman Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. see all copies from $16.95! new only from $16.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America more books like this by Erik Larson The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America more books like this by Barbara Ehrenreich In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Island of the Blue Dolphins more books like this by Scott O'Dell When the young Indian girl Karana's tribe leaves their island because of marauding Russian fishermen, Karana insists on staying. Left to fend for herself and to do men's work that she had never done before, Karana spends 18 years on the island with only a dog as company. Based on a true story. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	I Am America (and So Can You!) more books like this by Stephen Colbert (Editor), Richard Dahm (Editor), Paul Dinello In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt and/or whistle, the star of Comedy Centrals "Colbert Report" explains his take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: faith, family, politics--and hygiene. see all copies from $7.19! new only from $7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	One Hundred Years of Solitude more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez A beguiling mix of politics, magic, romance, and sex, the saga of the mysterious history of the Buendia family of the village of Macondo does nothing less than recapitulate the entire history of the human race. Written with little regard for traditional novelistic conventions, Garcia Marquez's novel incorporates emotional responses in lieu of plot ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America more books like this by Ronald Takaki A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. see all copies from $2.81! new only from $7.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Testament more books like this by John Grisham Nate O'Riley, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and recovering alcoholic, must fight both a morally corrupt legal system and his own recurring addiction to find Rachel Lane, a young woman working as doctor deep in the Brazilian wetlands. Rachel has inherited a multi-billion-dollar fortune, but with her other siblings clamoring for a piece of the pie, she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Bean Trees more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver Taylor Greer, from rural Kentucky, buys a 1955 Volkswagen and drives west. Along the way, she picks up an abandoned 3-year-old Native American girl named Turtle, and by the time she pulls up at the Jesus Is Lord Used Tire Auto Repair Shop, Taylor is well on her way towards establishing an adventurous new life in the desert land of the Southwest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian more books like this by Sherman Alexie Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live. see all copies from $8.05! new only from $9.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Bel Canto more books like this by Ann Patchett An opera singer becomes a long-term hostage in a South American country bedeviled by terrorists. Removed from the outside world, hostages and captors gradually forge a life together that, surprisingly, contains its own satisfactions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong more books like this by James W Loewen Why do so many Americans have little grasp of the ideas that shaped their nation? In this groundbreaking book, Loewen not only exposes the villain--textbooks that are embarrassing combinations of blind patriotism and outright lies--but reinstates suppressed information in a fascinating chronology. 26 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol What is happening to our schools and our kids? In this expose on public education, Jonathan Kozol, with equal parts outrage and humanism, writes that in America, there are two systems of education that are separate and unequal. His choice of the word "apartheid" in his subtitle is not merely rhetorical; students in many schools may never encounter ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Democracy in America more books like this by Professor Alexis de Tocqueville The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this classic in French after traveling across America. It is divided into two sections: the first, on government; the second, on the American character. It is considered one of the most perceptive and enduring descriptions of America and Americans ever written. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.73! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West more books like this by Dee Brown Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. When it was first published in 1971, both reviewers and the reading public responded first with shock, then a deep sense of shame, calling it "shattering" (Washington Post) ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	America: A Narrative History more books like this by George Brown Tindall This large, lavishly illustrated, single-volume history of the United States has been a standard for years. From the Native American experience before Columbus to the Clinton Administration, Tindall and Shi provide a narrative that includes major events and personalities while paying attention to the culture of everyday life. With over a hundred ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Ceremony more books like this by Leslie Silko Silko's book emphasizes the importance of storytelling in Pueblo culture, and discusses the implications of the ways the white man's culture has tried to destroy the tradition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	America: Pathways to the Present more books like this by Andrew R L Cayton see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| first editions
20 view cover	Love Medicine more books like this by Louise Erdrich Erdrich's first novel, published in 1984, is actually a collection of interrelated but independent stories about characters who subsequently became perennial actors in her vast and colorful drama of Native American life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot more books like this by Naomi Wolf Wolfs latest work exposes how the escalation of executive power has eroded the core values surrounding personal freedoms. She outlines in this citizen call to action the real threats that exist to Americans civil liberties and explains how to solve the growing threat. see all copies from $7.25! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 more books like this by David McCullough Popular historian David McCullough tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal, which connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He relates the engineering, the politics, and the human drama. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS won a National Book Award in history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sign of the Beaver more books like this by Elizabeth George Speare In late 18th-century Maine, 12-year-old Matthew is left alone in his family's newly built cabin for several weeks while his father returns to Massachusetts to fetch the entire family. A series of mishaps leads to Matthew's rescue by the chief of the Beaver tribe. Over a period of months, Matthew teaches an Indian boy, Attean, English, while he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Yellow Raft in Blue Water more books like this by Michael Dorris A novel that works its way backwards from the 1980s to the 1950s to tell the stories of three generations of women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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